Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani said that the forces of western imperialism have always destabilised the world leaders who took a stand for national interest, welfare of their people and resisted the hegemony of the super powers.
While paying tribute to revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Mian Raza Rabbani said that his three leading lessons including resilience against super powers, safeguard national interest and welfare of masses will prove to be the model of change for the world.
Chairing a memorial seminar held on Wednesday to pay tribute to Fidel Castro at Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS), the chairman said that Pakistani nation felt pain of Cuban people who not only lost a great leader but also a father, friend and comrade who changed their lives.
The seminar was organised by Pak-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group of Pakistan ‘ at Pakistan Institute of Parliamentary Studies (PIPS), and was attended by president of the group Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed, Ambassador of Cuba Gabriel Tiel Capote, parliamentarians, diplomats and the people from different walks of life.
The chairman said that the Cuban leader was a ray of hope for the poor and gave a direction to the suppressed, downtrodden and exploited people to live their life with dignity and fight for their rights rather than giving up before their unjust supremacy.
He said that the all the great leaders including Jamal Abdul Nasir and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto have a thread running common among them that they were destabilised by the US imperialism.
Ambassador of Cuba to Pakistan Gabriel Tiel said that Cuba and Pakistan are true friends who stood with each other in every difficult time, and added that people of Cuba did not consider the great leader Fidel Castro as a past as he still lives in their hearts. He stated that Fidel changed the world through his deeds and gave an ideology to masses to live their life with dignity.
Presenting the welcome address, president of Pak-Cuba Parliamentary Friendship Group, Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed stated that Fidel Castro was role model in revolutionary struggles.
“His revolution was based on an affective foreign policy resisting foreign invasions, Cuban nationalism through welfare of the masses, comprehensive health facilities, which are rare in third world countries and a role model for the world as well as comprehensive education reforms”, he said.
He shared that there were three major revolutions in the world including Russian revolution which have long affects on Europe, Chinese revolution which changed Asia while the third one was Iranian revolution which has deep roots on Muslim world, but the Cuban Revolution ‘ gave direction to the people of Latin America and inspired the entire third world’.
Senator Shibli Faraz said that the support extended by Cuba during the earthquake was remarkable step in the cordial relation between the two countries. He said that Fidel Castro has taught a common man and the nation how to live with honour and dignitary. MNA Shireen Mazari and Senator Afrasyab Khan Khattak also spoke on the occasion.
